Precision Farming Economic Worksheet

Downloading and Installing "Precision Farming Economic Worksheet"

Click on Precision Farming Economic Worksheet for Windows '95/'98, a self-extracting zipped file with a setup routine. With most browsers, you will get a choice of saving it to your hard drive or opening it. Save it to your hard drive. Go to the folder/directory in which you saved the file and double-click on precise.exe It will copy its files to your Windows/Temp directory, and then start the setup routine. Just follow the setup routine instructions

To Create a Shortcut

After installing the program, you will see a program group with an icon. Right click on the icon that appears in the program group then click `Copy'. Close the program group. Now, right click in the middle of the screen and click `Paste'. This will copy and paste the icon.

Another way to create a shortcut is, somewhere on the main screen of Windows '95/'98, click the right button of the mouse. Then click 'New', then click 'Shortcut'. Double click the Precise file, then click precise.exe. Click next, and follow the directions.

Overview

The "Precision Farming Economic Worksheet" allows the user to analyze the costs of using precision agriculture technologies. There are two pages in this program. The first page is a list of key variables involved with using the technologies as well as the manager's time devoted to learning and using the technologies. The second page of the program breaks those costs into investment costs per acre, variable costs per acre, management costs per acre, and total costs per acre. Now, the producer can add these costs into their enterprise budgets to help determine if these technologies will work on their farm.

For More Information

For additional information about the "Precision Farming Economic Worksheet", please contact Steve Isaacs.